vulnerability with ssh-agent

Peter Stuge stuge-openssh-unix-dev at cdy.org
Mon Jul 19 04:35:35 EST 2004


On Sun, Jul 18, 2004 at 08:26:42PM +0200, Peter Stuge wrote:
> It is. When ssh asks ssh-agent for the key, ssh-agent asks the user
> for permission.

To clarify, ssh doesn't ask for the key and more importantly
ssh-agent doesn't give it out.

ssh asks ssh-agent to USE the key. ssh-agent asks the user for
permission.

Sorry for any confusion.


//Peter




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